Ideally ofcourse the BOINC-server should be smarter and noticing your PC can't handle the ultra-big WU, send you one of the regular, smaller jobs. But this feature is not yet available in BOINC server code unfortunately.

Actually it is. There is only enough space in the feeder queue for 1,000 workunits. When the scheduler connects up to the feeder queue to get work it cycles through all 1,000 slots looking for available work. When all 1,000 queue slots are filled up with large jobs that is what the server returns.

Splitting the queue up equally is supported with different applications. If this is really a big problem we could set things up in such a way that the project believes it has more than one application and 50% of the queue is saved for each application.

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application version 5.24

Is a .pdb file available for download for the 5.24 version of the Rosetta application? I’m only able to find an older version posted online.

[b]"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me[/b]

Welcome, Brian Bowles. System Idle Process of zero is a cruncher's goal. A project that runs nicely in the background the way Rosetta does is a dream.

Here's a shot of a gadget available with Windows Vista's sidebar and I keep it on my desktop. I don't want to waste any CPU cycles. :-)

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If you have issues with running, post them in a new topic and someone will help you get them sorted.

Hi Brian,

As cureseekers has pointed out letting Rosetta even when you are working on your computer should not decrease performance - at least I can't notice any difference. However if you want to preempt BOINC when you use your computer you should keep in mind, that changing the preferences on the webpages does not change anything on your computer. After every change you need to "Update" the project and verify that the general preference were synced with your local host. Then Rosetta should not use cycles if you set your preference to "No work when computer is in use".

You should "Leave application in memory" on yes. Not only because of the errors (which should be fixed) but because checkpointing occurs still quite infrequently. You may loose over an hour of work if you remove the apps while preempted.

If you really can't get Rosetta to pause try to suspend the Project inside BOINC. If even this does not work I don't know.

P.S.: Your computer is hidden, so it is hard to help you out without knowing the specs and OS.

Hmm, that's not correct. If the BOINC Manager is set to "Run based on Preferences" and the general preferences have "Do work while computer is in use?" set to "No", then when typing in Word or doing any activity with the mouse/keyboard, all BOINC applications should be preempted and therefore using 0% CPU. After stopping the activity, the general preference "Do work only after computer is idle for" controls when BOINC will 'un-preempt' the applications.

I can confirm this is the correct behavior. If I have Task Manager open, I can see several BOINC project applications on the Process tab, but using 0% CPU. (I have "Leave applications in memory while preempted?" set to "Yes").

(Normally, I force BOINC Manager to "Run Always", but wanted to confirm the behavior.)

@Brian Bowles:
That's normal. With the normal settings, BOINC (Rosetta) uses the free CPU cycles. When you are typing a letter in Word, or surfing the internet, it uses less than 5% of your CPU power. The project (Rosetta) uses the free CPU cycles.
This is the way the DC program works.

The application runs at the lowest priority. This means that when another application asks more CPU power (example: you start up graphical software), this application gets this immidiatly. So for example your normal work asks at that moment 75% of your CPU, Rosetta only gets the rest (25%).
A few moments later, your normal work asks 15%, boinc gets 85%.
So Rosetta has the lowest priority: it only gets what isn't being used by other applications.

• I have boinc locally set to 'Run always' (right click on the BOINC icon in the system tray). When I use the computer I right click on the icon and change it to 'Run based on preferences', which I have set to not do work while the computer is in use (project setting). When I am finished I will right click on the icon and change it back to 'Run always'. Also, yes, when I make changes to BOINC in a project I do click on 'Update' for that project.
  
  
• I will change "Leave application in memory" back to yes.
  
  
• I have a GenuineIntel Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.00GHz running Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition, Service Pack 4, (05.00.2195.00. Currently running BOINC Manager Version 5.2.13, with a few projects other than Rosetta.
  

What I wanted to do was post a possible problem with R@H not allowing itself to be preempted. When I do change to 'Run based on preferences', the processor is still being used at 100% even though R@H is showing preempted in the BOINC work tab (which of course means the computer is verrrrry slooooowwwww :-( ). The only way I have found to allow the processor to be used for things other than R&H was to go to Task Manager and stop the rosetta_5.24_wi process, then the processor would drop to around 0% and allow for other things to be done on the computer. This issue didn't show up until one of the recent releases (sorry, I'm not sure which one), before these it would exit normally.

Thanks again for the help!